Long Walk to Hollywood: Why has Nelson Mandela been so badly served by cinema?
A subject as complex as Mandela deserves a film that will weigh into the grey areas, and while Idris Elba…
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Mangrove 9: Darcus Howe and the extraordinary campaign to expose racism in the police
Darcus Howe's biographers on the origins of his life-long struggle to expose racism in the police.
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Winston Churchill interviewed in 1939: “The British people would rather go down fighting”
In January 1939, as Germany and Russia rearmed, Kingsley Martin, the editor of the New Statesman, spoke to the former…
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How Syria polite dictator won.
ByA preview of 2014 on the big screen
Steve McQueen’s raging and compassionate film about Solomon Northup will be the first hit of the year.
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Too little has been written about the Brighton-born novelist, Ann Quin, whose writing ruptured middle class pieties.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is right to urge professional standards among bankers. The industry requires social, as well as regulatory…
ByDavid O Russell’s American Hustle: Back to reality
In styling his new film like a hard-edged Scorsese crime thriller, Silver Linings Playbook director David O Russell has lent…
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